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Congress members Frank Pallone and Bonnie Watson Coleman have formally asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release from ICE custody two fathers arrested as they dropped their children off for school late last month, and a third man…Read more

Well, here’s the other shoe to fall in the developing story of Piscataway Council’s attempt to stop a resident from streaming a public council meeting using Facebook Live a few days ago; ACLU-NJ is informing Piscataway by letter to the…Read more

… And reminds Frelinghuysen that his father, Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr, spoke out against McCarthyism in 1954; distancing himself from Senator Joseph McCarthy’s reckless persecutions at the height of his powers. A similar sharp criticism was made earlier this year, at one…Read more

As you know, Trump snowflake ego cannot accommodate the fact that nobody showed up for his swearing in – so he lied about it – or that he lost the popular vote. That second one, he thinks he can do…Read more

Well, it would be a hell of a speech. I’ll bring the popcorn. Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), including Sen. Bob Menendez, are petitioning House and Senate leaders to invite Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to address a joint…Read more

Today, Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. co-signed a letter being circulated by Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI) that requests President-elect Donald Trump rescind his appointment of Steve Bannon as White House Chief Strategist. The letter already has 120 co-signers from the U.S. House…Read more

This came from a friend, who didn’t want to be identified – and I don’t blame him. I’ll let him set it up: Just got a letter in the mail addressed to “Friends of HRC” with a return address as…Read more

A Central NJ parent I know, has already written and sent a letter like this one. But she also asked her own children to write an essay to their principals explaining their own reasons why they didn’t want to participate in the tests. Her 7th-grader – Anna, 13 – concluded her essay with this: “PARCC is a waste of time for parents’ worried minds, students’ exhausted brains and teachers’ valuable time.” – Rosi

Along with millions of Americans, I proudly and joyously voted for you in 2008. I believed that finally our nation was living up to its promise of a land where ‘all men [and women] are created equal’. I have continually admired your resolve and poise in the face of birthers and other racists who have purposefully jeopardized the best interests of our nation as they plot your political demise. And I voted for you again in 2012, albeit without the same level of enthusiasm. In many ways I’m still happy you are my president. The economy is heading in the right direction, millions of previously uninsured people now have access to affordable healthcare, and our troops are coming home from over a decade of war. But to be perfectly honest, in certain ways it’s more about what an alternate McCain or Romney universe would have looked like, and less about what yours looks like now because theirs would have been exponentially worse for people like me and those whom I serve.

The central administration of the Newark Public Schools sent out a letter last week to “families”-a letter over the signature of state-appointed superintendent Cami Anderson -that displayed unforgivable insensitivity by suggesting crime would go up because Newark’s children were not confined to their schools for the two days of the New Jersey Education Association convention. It posted the same letter on its website.

Click to enlarge the letter.

The e-mailed letter, sent to school principals Nov. 12 for distribution home through students, was withdrawn within two hours and then taken down from the website, according to multiple sources in the Newark schools.

However, in at least one school-perhaps more-the original version was sent home to some 700 families.

I originally posted the letter sent to me by a Newark teacher. I later took it down and deleted all references to it because of concerns I had about its authenticity. The letter contained grammatical mistakes. Its last sentence ended with a comma-as does the sanitized version. It was sloppily written., And, of course, it contained volatile language about the imagined criminal propensities of Newark children.